# The New, Faster Internet: Download An HD Movie In 5 Seconds!

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**Created:** [April 2, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-faster-internet-download-an-hd-movie-in-5-seconds/443651 "2008-04-02T07:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-faster-internet-download-an-hd-movie-in-5-seconds/443651/1 "2008-04-02T07:14:53Z")

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According to this [Newsweek Article](http://www.newsweek.com/id/129639), this is not some pipe dream, it is already a reality and might be ready to roll out to some people as early as May of this year! It has a 10-gigabit-per-second dynamic-circuit network!

When I think back to my first modem…it was state-of-the-art technology and downloaded at the rate of 14k per minute…and it wasn’t cheap! I can remember secretly downloading a single porn photo and it taking almost three hours to download!

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-faster-internet-download-an-hd-movie-in-5-seconds/443651/2 "2008-04-02T08:20:27Z")

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I don’t believe it’s commercially available, but in July 2007 I saw this [site:](http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-07-19-swedish-woman-fast-internet_N.htm)

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> She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg’s 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

She’s a rather odd choice for a beta tester as her son who did the installation said:

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> “She’s a brand-new Internet user,” Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. “She didn’t even have a computer before.”
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> His mother isn’t exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.